2018 American Transplant Congress
Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Interventional Radiology Treatment for Vascular Complications Following Living Donor Liver Transplantation: The Efficacy of Stent Placement
Background: Vascular complication is life-threatening when it develops after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and interventional radiology (IVR) is a less-invasive therapeutic option comparing to…2018 American Transplant Congress
Advancement in Perioperative Outcomes of Living Donors in Pure Laparoscopic Right Hepatectomy
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
Background In the early period, laparoscopic liver resection was applied in limited cases, but now the number of cases and its application is rapidly increasing.…2018 American Transplant Congress
28-Year Cumulative US Experience with Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplant – How Far Have We Come?
Surgery, State University of New York, Downstate, Brooklyn, NY.
Introduction: The last 30 years have shown tremendous growth in pediatric liver transplant. Refinements of surgical technique and immunosuppression have improved graft survival. In the…2018 American Transplant Congress
Water-Jet Dissection for Donor Hepatectomy during Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Background The most important issue in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is donor safety. Although donor hepatectomy has evolved technically over the years, it is…2018 American Transplant Congress
UPMC Living Donor Champion Program
Transplant Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
Aims: Living donation is a good option to address organ shortage and waitlist mortality, but finding a living donor can be a challenge. The goal…2018 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Preserved Collateral Veins on Small-for-Size Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Center for Liver Cancer, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Goyang, Republic of Korea.
Purpose: Graft size is a critical issue in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We hypothesized that too much portal flow could possibly be diverted into…2018 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Related Issues Leads the Medical Reasons to Exclude Potential Living Kidney Donors from Donation ; Prospective Study
Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Living kidney donors provide the best therapeutic option for patients with kidney failure going for kidney transplantation; however significant numbers of them are out for…2018 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma beyond UCSF Criteria: Can We Achieve a Modest Long-Term Survival? A Single Center Retrospective Analysis of Using Extended Criteria
Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
Milan's criteria were universally validated for LT in HCC patients and, were accepted as allocation criteria of UNOS in 2001 & Eurotransplantation in 2006. However,…2018 American Transplant Congress
Multi-Center Examination of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT) as an Enhancement to the Psychosocial Evaluation of Living Donors
Purpose: The LDAT is the first psychosocial assessment tool developed to standardize live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluations (PsychE). It assesses motivation, LD knowledge/expectations, support, closeness…2018 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Outcomes after Living Liver Donation: Analysis of National Data Base
Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Background: Every year, more than 800 healthy people undergo hepatic resection for living liver donation in Korea. Although 27 years has passed since the first…
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